Show I STREAM STREM OF COPPER FROM MANY fANY CAMPS CAMP CA Big Production Is Promised From New and Old Districts Districts- RAPID STRIDES A ARE E SHOWN Arf I lias I Sti Still Sti II l lien lo to I or of i Rich tiel I il in ill Utah The rapid that lint hao beer been made h by the time Amell American an copper mines during tho tIn past five f e years are nrc shown cr very cry plainly by hy the figures of lr JH production tion tiou tol says 88 thy the N Now New York Commercial i Arizona has doubled her output and amid andis t is still fat far ta from having reached her hex I possible productive capacity Butte Dute i I Is In the time throes of ot a boom I II It I Is ts obvious that Utah Is destined at no 10 remote p period to Join Michigan an Montana and Arizona as one ono of or the thc great copper producing fields hield of the world Even en 1 as matters stand now Utah Is by no un means moans trivial b. b a producer producer pro pro- ducer her hel output for fOl 1905 having b been n but a 0 smaller than the lie copp copper copper cop cop- p per r production of o if either lher ehl Chile or ni Japan for th the iame year Twenty Twenty- five years yem previously I the enli entire United I States ma made e a trifle le less s copper than liar was made b by Utah Ulah in 1 1005 OG The developments de tie- le- le of the past hart year Crl in th the camp of Utah have been ben of ul such a nature as to insure the tho making of one of time tho tw largest and most lastIng lastIng lasting last- last Ing producing fields felds on the thc globe Iobe In fact tact there Is one omme mine nt at L which justly can In lay claim to possession posses poses poses- sion slon of the largest known ore hod body In the United States Alaskan n Pio-peets Pio Good Another American fel field that lint Is quite certain to be heard from rom within a few Cew years yearA Js Is Alaska The tol toW told re regarding re- re gard garding I mig Alaskan copper deposits have i been seen of such uch an incredible nature that that re th lie nf of I I I copper In large quantities in Alaska sk was but natural There seems to be b beno 10 no 10 qu question sUon however of ot the ext extent nt and high grade grale of or many o of time the Alaskan copper offer prospects The first nines In s to produce are are er very sery natural naturally those at tidewater these being a n roup of oC properties on Prince of or Wales Vales Island and upon UIn time the mainland opposite in tho the Ketchikan district There are are two wo smelters now In opera- opera lion on Prince of Wales Voles Island Islan and live five or six shipping mines mine While the 1906 production of Alaska Alala will wi be buta but a 1 few million pounds the tho production will wi be important because the fore fore- of oC a st steady acy stream of or the time red metal that will wi How flout from froni rom the tho far California also is a field feld of production lon ion that will wm be bc heard from much flinch more In the future than In the past There are arc perhaps a score core of different Bounties In the tate state that possess posses coper cop- cop ocr er deposits of oC commercial promise but the developments of or a a important im- im nature ate are almost exclusively ely li-i li n the nOlI northern part palt of the time state stat and amid main mainly 1 In Sha Shasta ta COUlt county Tho The Mountain Moun- Moun tam aln tain COPI Copper c com company jany English corporation cor cor- was th the first con concern erl to pio- pio duce tuce California copper upon a considerable con con- scale a profit In keep keep- Ins ng with the lie capital risked and the employed The rue Mountain com com- onny nany has experienced more than Its fair air Call share of or troubles during the past Is three years es but hut is Js coming ahead slowly lowly Four Foul other othel corporations are ale working here on a large lam scale sele I Po ies In Nevada mere are other western states that lint with wi he be heard heald front from rm as ns copper coppel 1110 pro pro- lucers luccIs in the future but at present lne mono lone arc are ver very far advanced ad The fhe greatest promise of Important pro- pro luction during the tue next few years ears Is in Nevada The Ely mines greater pos possibilities than are arc found In the time majority of or camps an and tow low ow that capital Is being devoted to time the exploitation of or these mines In fum sums a large lure production nay be looked for within the next few jeans Jean V Wyoming lUt huts has a multitude of oC coper cop cop- er I mining companies In Carbon embon and counties but hut there may be he hethe the he maJ makings ln s of mines moines In many of oC the time ther J Lack ack o of railroad ion Uon ha has held hell the time district ha back k but bul a n railroad should reach encampment luring 1900 1 and anti allow alow production upon a lax larger cale scale than has haR been Io heretofore New Mexico Is increasing I Its his cop cop- eel oer production The The- rho hope hOIe for or the time im- im In- In future seems to rest Iest mainly with wih Grant county where two new now are developing vigorously in iii n the Sliver Silver City tunnel Washing ton Oi Ol Oregon I and Idaho all al have cop cop- COI- COI ocr cr Wl properties of or promise and anti eventually e ally aly Sho should b become good copper coppel states stales sN J H US I PO J VIKi O I True Truo Story tl of or ir Iah lew Icum Miner fern 1111 hl Predicament Here's Heres a IL 1 true lut make story for Ol which th time tho I Is 15 held heiti re hie ble Tunnel No 1 of or the time lew Lena Lemma company l is It limo feet In iii len length anti and as It I is af It fairly straight when blasting occurs rock roel up to some tome pounds in iii weight is hurled hurled right out to the time dump thump The Tho other othol morning who works in this tunnel was vas 11 Brit engaged engaged en en- in blasting unIt Britt hu hud chal charged tour four Ol hol holes with the time giant powder cl and 11 having igni ignited d the time fuses made I his way vay to daylight and a as quickly a as reason dictates He lie le ha had reached a point within In five or 01 six ix feet of tho ho tunnel mouth when the unwholesome sound of ot aISI angry rattling root met his oars Looking down lown he perceived pet per PC el cei himself just upon two full full- ful- ful grown rat rattlesnakes about to col coil coll was without tools or 01 weapon of ot otan an kind IOl and anti time was precious Behind Bo- Bo hind him were four char charges c of dynamite dy d- dy- dy nami on time the point o of ex exploding II ol I n and ald before him lay Jay the two two villainous looking reptiles rattling und poising themselves f fox for r thrusting their venomous venom enor ous ous fangs at nt him There Then wa was no room to tj wal walk around for 01 the lit tunnel is tn too narrow and there was but hut one oYie ot thin thing to do to tn to Jump Britt delayed not at all al but wok the time leap leall shouting to the foreman foreman foreman fore fore- man ns he lie did no so and landed at the tho portal whence he retired down the thc flump I to u o o escape tho the Hying rock rode from the tho explosion With lh the foreman loeman he returned to the time tunnel to find the two snakes s coiled U up and anc shielding themselves from tho the rock behind the blade o of a spade Though unhurt thC they seemed c lazed dozed and anti subdued by 4 the thc explosion and the they were killed at ut i once The first was as found Coune to ro bo be fully Culy three e feet long Ions and amid to ha have hae e eight rat rat- ties while the thue second was slightly t loss less ICA In iii Ilz size and amid had rn six rattles matties |